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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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